The poems and plays of Oliver GoldsmithIra Bradley & Company, 1818 - 254 Seiten |
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... hand to hand , It shifts , in splendid traffic , round the land : From courts to camps , to cottages it strays , And all are taught an avarice of praise ; They please , are pleased , they give to get esteem , Till , seeming blest , they ...
... hand to hand , It shifts , in splendid traffic , round the land : From courts to camps , to cottages it strays , And all are taught an avarice of praise ; They please , are pleased , they give to get esteem , Till , seeming blest , they ...
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... hand , Fierce in their native hardiness of soul , True to imagined right , above controul , While even the peasant boasts these rights to scan , And learns to venerate himself as man . Thine , Freedom , thine the blessings pictured here ...
... hand , Fierce in their native hardiness of soul , True to imagined right , above controul , While even the peasant boasts these rights to scan , And learns to venerate himself as man . Thine , Freedom , thine the blessings pictured here ...
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... hand is seen , And desolation saddens all thy green ; One only master grasps the whole domain , And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain . No more thy glassy brook reflects the day , But choked with sedges works its weedy way ; Along ...
... hand is seen , And desolation saddens all thy green ; One only master grasps the whole domain , And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain . No more thy glassy brook reflects the day , But choked with sedges works its weedy way ; Along ...
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... hand , Filled with a snake - encircled wand ; By classic authors termed Caduceus , And highly famed for several uses : To wit - most wondrously endued , No poppy - water half so good ; For let folks only get a touch , Its soporific ...
... hand , Filled with a snake - encircled wand ; By classic authors termed Caduceus , And highly famed for several uses : To wit - most wondrously endued , No poppy - water half so good ; For let folks only get a touch , Its soporific ...
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... hand . There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence , that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue . [ Exit . Jar . Well , go thy ways , Sir William Honeywood . It is not without reason that the world ...
... hand . There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence , that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue . [ Exit . Jar . Well , go thy ways , Sir William Honeywood . It is not without reason that the world ...
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assure aunt Bail bar-maid battle of Belgrade believe Bless Charles Marlow charms child Constance daughter David Garrick dress Ecod Enter Miss Exeunt Exit eyes face father favour fear fellow folly fool fortune friendship Garnet gentleman girl give hand happiness Hast hear heart Heaven honour hope horses hour humour impudence Jarvis jewels keep lady laugh leave Leon Leontine letter look Lord madam maid Marlow married mean mind Miss Cat Miss Hard Miss Hardcastle Miss Nev Miss Neville Miss Rich Miss Richland modest never night Oliv OLIVER GOLDSMITH Olivia on't pardon passion pleasure poor Pray pretty pride scarce scene servants Sir Char Sir Wil Sir William Honeywood smiling soul squire STOOPS TO CONQUER sure talk tell there's thing thou Tony undone what's wish young Zounds
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Seite 27 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault ; The village all declared how much he knew ; 'Twas certain he could write and cipher too ; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran that he could gauge...
Seite 53 - Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind. His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland : Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart.
Seite 21 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene...
Seite 26 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place : Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools who came to scoff remained to pray.
Seite 65 - ... curs of low degree. This dog and man at first were friends ; But when a pique began, The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad and bit the man. Around, from all the...
Seite 29 - The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied; Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds...
Seite 29 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Seite 34 - Dear charming nymph, neglected and decried, My shame in crowds, my solitary pride; Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so; Thou guide by which the nobler arts excel, Thou nurse of every virtue, fare thee well!
Seite 38 - No flocks that range the valley free, To slaughter I condemn, Taught by that Power that pities me, I learn to pity them : " But from the mountain's grassy side A guiltless feast I bring ; A scrip with herbs and fruits supplied, And water from the spring. " Then, Pilgrim, turn, thy cares forego ; All earth-born cares arc wrong ; Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
Seite 28 - Thither no more the peasant shall repair, To sweet oblivion of his daily care ; No more the farmer's news, the barber's tale, No more the woodman's ballad shall prevail ; No more the smith his dusky brow shall clear, Relax his ponderous strength, and lean to hear...